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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same ...
I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers ...
Man with Brain the Size of Tic Tac Mates with Amoeba Couple gives birth to giant adjusto; names him Dale
As women, we do feel like we have to live up to an expectation, whether it's on camera or going to the market or whatever ...
That good or bad momentS never be forgetten. It Store alwayS in any corner it will remembered at right time automaticaly. No one can eraSe ...
God, his heart could be loud sometimes, loud as if it had its own will, its own logic, its own voice.
Loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars ...
All you young Aussies just want to fuck and get fucked up, no?
Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place of annihilation, now you are at the ...
Under his spurning feet, the roadLike an arrowly alpine river flowedAnd the landscape sped away behindLike an ocean flying before the wind ...
You talk to it, and talk to it. And the stone listens, absorbing all your words, all your secrets, until one fine day it explodes. ...
As part of his administrative reforms, Suleiman lowered taxes on peasants in his Empire. This led to immigration of Christian peasants who left the rest ...
Remember two matters and forget two matters;1. Remember Allah (SWT) and death.2. Forget any good that you have done to another and any evil that ...
When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp ...
But, you're his son," I said, trying really hard to hate him. "You're the son of Satan. Literally.""And you are the stepdaughter of Denise Davidson."Wow. ...
A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.
I hate being judged all the time and having to hide my fear, my emotions, my vulnerabilities. You think I'm a brave, talented young woman, ...
As a mom, you have all these situations you go through, and you're like, 'What is going on? Is this normal? Is this a phase? ...
There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
That same manne, that renneth awaye,Maye again fight, an other daye.
Upshaw - Apsaroke, 1905. Curtis's friend and interpreter Alexander Upshaw, "perfectly educated and absolutely uncivilized," as Curtis said of him, had trouble shuttling between two ...
It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.
The average American child, by age eighteen, is estimated to have seen eighteen thousand murders and two hundred thousand acts of violence on television. The ...
If you are not sure or you don't know something, politely ask. Asking is not a sign of being daft, but of confidence.
UCF stayed with me all the way, so I felt I should stay with them.
This is the white man's burden, the noblesse oblige of the missionary, colonist and development professional, who feel a duty to shepherd those unfortunate enough ...
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.
Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.
Here's the thing Washington always misses. Washington always wants a deal. America wants a solution. Americans sent us here to solve problems.
Thus, little by little, through training the mind, you can change your habitual way of being.
At the end of the day, we're all judged by those we leave behind.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
What's the name for the space between stars?""No such name." "Make one up." I thought about it. "The soul asylum." "That's another way of saying ...
Fasting men and fasting women, God has prepared forgiveness and a splendid wage.Quran-AlAhzab(35)
That's the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed.
Me & Mik. I've never been part of an ampersand before.
I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like ...
Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time ...
What geomancy reads what the windblown sand writes on the desert rock? I read there that all things live by a generous power and dance ...
That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to ...
Teach that asshole some manners."I winked at her and smiled. "Anything for you, baby.
Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way
Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world's greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as ...
The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. ...
Bureaucracy was very rarely an obstruction, provided that one applied to it the insights of ordinary, everyday psychology
There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.
Just wondering where you keep your ABBA collection.
Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an ...
Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph.
Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree ...
You know, I've always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a ...
Responsible: (1) Liable to be held to account for discharging one's duty; (2) Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore ...
I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
Have you seen anybody dancing? He is totally aware of himself and dances his way in a manner as decided by his heart. Meditation is ...
In the cave's innermost entryway, a band of four stood tall and thick, shouldered and heavily weaponed.Members of the Brotherhood.He knew this quartet by name: ...
A "The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or ...
Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, ...
Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a time, simply tolerates ...
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy ...
Opportunity knocks only once.
I act much younger than I am.
This woman's size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a ...
Just looking at each other is something really moving to me, more so than the nudity.
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, ...
Parked the bike in a side road - and fainted. The second accident occurred at night in heavy
Ank froze. The moaning became more stressful and a little bit louder. "I think its coming from the basement."Without warning, Ank grabs a pool stick ...
I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us ...
I had come here intending to declare a possible war and instead ended up planning a dinner date with my father at Applebee's.
In a major matter no details are small.
(Spring is the earth forgiving itself.)
Besides, if you can spot ahouse that contains, say, half a dozen to a dozen people, and just plop a "Johnson" right amidships, it generally ...
Lucy absently thanked him and at once began to consider which among her gowns would be best suited for a midnight adventure to a gothic ...
Sliding is living antifriction. Or, no, sliding is living by antifriction. It is finding a modest thing you can do, and then greasing that thing. ...
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole ...
I believe the names we choose on our own can be powerful, and they can embody a new identity for us. When
My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of ...
There was a great difference, I said, between the things I wanted and the things I could apparently have, and until I had finally and ...
There are people who in large measure have information that we need ... so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in ...
If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting ...
I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever ...
To the steampunk community, including artisans like Richard "Doc" Nagy (sadly lost to us) and musicians like Professor Elemental, Steam Powered Giraffe, Vagabond Opera, and ...
A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
And began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. ACT2:05
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate ...
An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you ...
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is ...
... Being bedridden doesn't agree with him at all."He certainly spent many hours abed being ridden.
I just felt it was my job to show that there is no easy way to success, and that anyone who gets even just one ...
I don't think every kind of pain makes people stronger. Some pain just hurts, Bayden said.
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only ...
The earliest witch-trial in the British Isles shows animal sacrifice. In 1324 in Ireland Lady Alice Kyteler 'was charged to haue nightlie conference with a ...
My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We ...